Experience

CHARLIE NORWOOD VA MEDICAL CENTER

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VA Chaplain

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Mental Health/DOM/OEF/OIF/Trauma Recovery Staff Chaplain. The incumbent serves as a Chaplain professional for the VHA. The incumbent provides religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires, and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of service. Mental Health/DOM/OEF/OIF/Trauma Recovery Staff Chaplain. The incumbent serves as a Chaplain professional for the VHA. The incumbent provides religious, spiritual, and pastoral care to all persons that are commensurate with the needs, desires, and voluntary consent of the Veteran, caregiver, or staff. The incumbent addresses the spiritual component of health and wellness in every patient care setting to ensure that pastoral care is fully integrated into all aspects of service.



Prisma Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• ACPE Resident Chaplain

  • Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

  My clinical placement site: Prisma Health is the largest private non-profit healthcare system in South Carolina. It is a 641-bed regional community teaching medical center in Columbia, SC. Prisma Health serves more than 22,000 patients each year from across the state and beyond. As a regional academic medical center and hospital with more than 125 years of service to Columbia, its goal is to improve the health of all South Carolinians by enhancing clinical quality, the patient experience, and access to affordable care as well as conducting clinical research and training the next generation of medical professionals. My duties as a chaplain resident, entail pastoral care coverage of 6 medical departments: Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU), Trauma 7 West, Hartwell, and the Emergency Department (ED). My focus as a spiritual caregiver and pastor was to give emotional and spiritual comfort to patients and their respective families in moments of their greatest joy and deepest sadness. My work centered on attending to the spiritual and emotional needs of patients, their respective families, and staff, via bedside visits, grief support, crisis management, and death and dying consolations in a multi-cultural environment. Additionally, my duties included participation in individual and group supervision; completing required reading and writing assignments; and sharing in pulling on-call/on-duty rotations with other pastoral care staff. Show less



U.S. Army Chaplain Corps

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Command Chaplain

  • Aug 2016 - Feb 2020

  Serves US Army Chaplain Center and School Transition Team (UTT) as Director of a creative and critical thinking initiatives group of the Army Chief of Chaplains; responsible for accessing, analyzing, and advising on current challenges for future solution; provides the Army Chaplain Corps with innovative, collaborative, and analytical products to enhance the Total Army Chaplain readiness; assists the USACHCS Direct in planning and transition of Space Utilization. Serves US Army Chaplain Center and School Transition Team (UTT) as Director of a creative and critical thinking initiatives group of the Army Chief of Chaplains; responsible for accessing, analyzing, and advising on current challenges for future solution; provides the Army Chaplain Corps with innovative, collaborative, and analytical products to enhance the Total Army Chaplain readiness; assists the USACHCS Direct in planning and transition of Space Utilization.



U.S. Army Central

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Command Chaplain

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Command Chaplain for US Army Central/Combined Forces Land Component Command (USARCENT/CLFCC). Leads 127 US Army Unit Ministry Team (UMT) and Chaplain Detachment (CD) members across the CENTCOM AOR by providing interoperable Religious Support and advising international Religious Affairs. If called upon, executes the same for JIIM operations as a CJTF Command Chaplain. As the Army Service Component Command Chaplain, responsible to the Army Chief of Chaplains for Title 10 administration and support to Army UMTs and CDs in the Area of Responsibility (AOR). As the Combined Forces Land Component Command Chaplain, responsible to the CENTCOM Chaplain for land power and mil-to-mil coordination of land forces and/or CJTF comprehensive Religious Support for the CENTCOM AOR. Played a key role as Section Supervisor for Theater Asset Visibility section with US Army Central Operations Command post in Kuwait. Oversaw logistical activities through diligent annotation and posting of unit material changes. Show less



Pentagon, US Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chaplain DACH 3/5/7 and Deputy Personnel

  • Jun 2014 - Mar 2016

  Training and Leader Development Action Officer for the Office of Chief of Chaplains (OCCH). Manage Chaplain Branch training policy for professional leader development and also responsible for assisting the Director of Personnel Management with DACH-1. Assist in managing and executing the day to day decisions and operations within the Personnel directorate. Work closely with other directors’ and senior –level chaplains within OCCH long-term strategic planning. Serve and provide supervision and oversight in the absence of the director Serves as project officer or the Chief Chaplains Strategy Recruitment Life Cycle. Show less



First Cavalry Construction

• Construction

• Division Chaplain

  • Feb 2012 - Mar 2014

  Serves as the Division Chaplain for the 1st Cavalry Division: mentor/advisor/intermediate rater for sex Heavy Brigade Combat Team Chaplains, two Division Staff Chaplains, and on Battalion Chaplain; supervises three Chaplain Assistants. Provides technical supervision to 103 Unit Ministry Teams (UMTs) across nine MSCs during III Corps Deployment. Assigned property and equipment valued over $2.3 Million. Advises command on religious, ethical, and morale issues/concerns. Monitors religious support and pastor care for Division Soldiers and Families; develops UMT training for deployment; synchronizes UMT effort; supports chaplain personnel and assignment issues; coordinates rear detachment UMT support for Soldier and Family Member; develops spiritual programs and reintegration training; provides general religious support to the Installation Chaplain’s post-wide religious program. Show less